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Sommer antennas
Would like to hear from Owners of the XP5xx and the XP7xx series of
antennas from Sommer located in Florida. Looking at that antenna plus the SteppIR. Will go up on a 45ft Rohn Tower that now supports a TA-33 tribander by Mosley Looking for both the positive as well as negative observations. Appreciate your input Ron W4LDE |
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Ron Walters wrote:
Would like to hear from Owners of the XP5xx and the XP7xx series of antennas from Sommer located in Florida. Looking at that antenna plus the SteppIR. Will go up on a 45ft Rohn Tower that now supports a TA-33 tribander by Mosley Looking for both the positive as well as negative observations. Appreciate your input Ron W4LDE Can you please list a website for this product? Nothing on first try google |
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My vote is the STEPP IR...
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Ron Walters wrote:
Would like to hear from Owners of the XP5xx and the XP7xx series of antennas from Sommer located in Florida. Looking at that antenna plus the SteppIR. Will go up on a 45ft Rohn Tower that now supports a TA-33 tribander by Mosley Looking for both the positive as well as negative observations. Appreciate your input Ron W4LDE Is Sommer out of business? I found sommerantennas.com listed in several locations but website is not up. |
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jawod wrote:
Ron Walters wrote: Would like to hear from Owners of the XP5xx and the XP7xx series of antennas from Sommer located in Florida. Looking at that antenna plus the SteppIR. Will go up on a 45ft Rohn Tower that now supports a TA-33 tribander by Mosley Looking for both the positive as well as negative observations. Appreciate your input Ron W4LDE Can you please list a website for this product? Nothing on first try google Was on the site yesterday,but tonight I am having trouble getting it to open, but I am also having trouble with lots of sites Here is the address, http://www.sommerantennas.com/ Ron |
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Ron Walters wrote:
Would like to hear from Owners of the XP5xx and the XP7xx series of antennas from Sommer located in Florida. Looking at that antenna plus the SteppIR. Will go up on a 45ft Rohn Tower that now supports a TA-33 tribander by Mosley Looking for both the positive as well as negative observations. Appreciate your input Ron W4LDE Well I may have asked a dumb question since the Web site no longer responds, I am going to make a call and see if we still have a potential product to consider or is the only viable solution the SteppIR Ron W4LDE |
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jawod wrote:
Ron Walters wrote: Would like to hear from Owners of the XP5xx and the XP7xx series of antennas from Sommer located in Florida. Looking at that antenna plus the SteppIR. Will go up on a 45ft Rohn Tower that now supports a TA-33 tribander by Mosley Looking for both the positive as well as negative observations. Appreciate your input Ron W4LDE Can you please list a website for this product? Nothing on first try google After a few days down due to server problems the Sommer WEB site is back up and running. Talked to Alf (Owner) on Friday and he has invited me to the factory to meet some other Hams who are users and are visiting the factory to pick up more beams, They have been very busy with Govt orders from all around the global and also busy on some new design for the military. Most of there business seems to come from Govt agency's. The WEB site is http://www.sommerantennas.com/ I am looking at this antenna since where I live (Central Fl) we have a great many lighting hits each summer plus the Hurricane potential. I am concerned with the SteppIR for the electrical motors and extra cables from the antenna down to the shack plus the very high humidity, and sometimes salty, corrosion problem potential with the strips inside the elements. The steppIR is a smaller looking beam and hides better than the sommer but if I also convert to a Hazer mount and I can lower it during bad weather. Still on the fence. Ron W4LDE PS - The next sun spot cycle is just around the corner and I want to be ready with a good antenna, not that the current TA-33 has not done a great job over the years, Trap less beams will perform better and its like adding a second amplifier by going to a LOG or to the steppIR and with the benefits of one feed line from 20-6 meters. Ron W4LDE |
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